Feedback & Reports

Conditions were really good, river up but not too high, dropping at first but then rising quickly in the latter part of the day, cloudy and very mild. Fun day, took me an hour or 2 to find the fish but when I did bites were pretty regular, bites dried up towards the end of the day when the river was rising quickly. Used feeder with hemp and pellets and boil hook baits. All fish between 6 and 7.5lb. chub around 3lbs. Glad I have a 4x4 otherwise I would have had no chance of getting out of there!

8 Barbel, 1 Chub

5 barbel and a chub, largest going 9lb 7 oz. Nearly over the magic double figure mark!...

5 Barbel, 1 Chub

-3 when I started! I had my doubts what sort of day I was going to have! to my surprise I started catching straight away, first 4 hours or so I had 12 barbel & 2 grayling on maggot feeder. Then it went quiet until the last hour when I had another 4 fish... barbel between 4lb - 8lb..... my theory for you what it's worth for you winter fisherman out there, as the temp started rising i was catching, as temp started falling, bites dried until the standard witching hour.

2 Grayling, 15 Barbel, 1 Chub

Good day. Was going to be a short session so decided not to move about and trust that the fish would find me. Weather was grey but comfortable and river carrying a little water and plant debris. Stuck with feeder and pellets and had a few bites spread over the session. Again a warning to visitors - access through the farm to the river requires opening and closing two gates and a clipped electric fence and the area can be muddy so be prepared with wellies and some protection for your car footwell otherwise you'll coat the pedals and mats with a heady mix of liquid mud and cow s**t.

1 Barbel, 3 Chub

10 Barbel, 1 Chub

Good day on this stretch again. Water a little low and clear but managed to catch through the day.

4 Barbel, 5 Chub

Started fishing about 9.00, river up but falling and running fast, slightly coloured. Fished top end of beat, bright sun all day which didn’t help, but ended up with 3 barbel 5lb 8ozs to 8lb 4 ozs and a nice chub. The barbel on pellets and chub on meat, lost 2 barbel to hook pulls and one barbel at the end which snapped the hook length. Although it was hard work we had a nice day in the sun and enjoyed every minute of it .

3 Barbel, 1 Chub

15 Barbel

Great day at Whitehouse. 4 of us block booked this beat. We all fished the upstream field as the level was too high to fish the concrete walkway. Barbel to 9.2 all taken on usual pellets and boilies and one on luncheon meat.
Staying all this week at Falcon House B&B. Great place to stay. for evening meals we went to the Moon at Mordiford.
Excellent pub food.

24 Barbel

Arrived early afternoon and explored the top field as the river was rising and too fast further down. Moved around a bit and found the fish quite quickly. Fishing quite close in on feeder with boilies. Lost 3 fish due to hook pulls so should've had a few more really. All fish between 6-7.5lb. Fun afternoon/evening.

7 Barbel